Investigative Selfism is my project on mindfulness, mental health, trauma, healing, and personal development.
Here, I point to amazing teachers and explore the topics of fear and courage, integrity and discomfort, personal agency, and how to build it. As a healthy container for all of us, I share resources that can empower us to be more compassionate with ourselves.
Why these two projects – The Exploding Head and Investigative Selfism?
Political science holds good answers to important questions.
- How does change happen?
- What systems and policies can result in more equal, peaceful, and inclusive societies?
- How do we get there?
I find it absolutely fascinating. That’s what I’ve studied and what I’m currently working with.
Yet if we look at the individual level – the smallest unit of analysis – suddenly, it requires very different tools.
In anything, we definitely need to expand our tool base here: political science alone is not enough.
This is why we need mindfulness.
- Compassion.
- Empathy.
- Befriending ourselves so we can befriend others.
- Acknowledging our insecurities instead of trying to exert power over others.
- Sitting with our pain instead of getting mobilised against those “others”.
- Healing our traumas instead of passing them on.
And that’s why we need storytelling:
To use its power to talk about – and to remind ourselves of – our shared humanity.
Through my professional experience, in my studies, and less academic pursuit of interests, I’ve been combining these three areas for some time now.
Interestingly, they are tightly connected: without one set of understanding, there wouldn’t be the other one.
I have kept them separate not to confuse my audiences too much, yet you can surely follow both of them!
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